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— Investing in the Future of Humanities at UC Riverside (2019-2024) —<\/h6>\n<\/div>
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From 2019-2024, the Mellon Humanities Grant at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society enriched research and collegiality in the humanities at the University of California, Riverside, by supporting the development and promotion of humanities-related projects of the highest merit and significance. Faculty fellows, selected through a competitive annual call for proposals, received research funds and time off from teaching to develop a book manuscript or other project. A special set of fellowships were reserved for the college dean\u2019s use in recruitment or retention. Fellows met monthly to share research and build community, balancing the need for dedicated time for research with the goal of nurturing cross-college connections.<\/p>\n

Through grants from the UCR Chancellor and the Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, an additional two years of fellowships will be offered (2024-25 and 2025-26). Learn more about faculty fellows for 2024-2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Fellows<\/h2><\/div>

2023-24<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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Donatella Galella<\/strong><\/a>
\nTheatre, Film, and Digital Production
\n<\/strong>Mellon Second Project Fellowship
\nGetting Away with Yellowface: Affect, Asian Americans, and American Musical Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nThe City as Archive: Street Names as a Pathway to Nineteenth-Century Lagos History<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Courtney Baker<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnglish
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nTyranny of Realism<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Anthony Jerry<\/strong><\/a>
\nAnthropology
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nRecipes for Recognition: An Anthropological Cookbook<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Annika Speer<\/strong><\/a>
\nTheatre, Film, and Digital Production
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nEmbodied Performance: A Humanities-Based Approach to Public Speaking<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Fariba Zarinebaf<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nWarfare and Cross-Cultural Trade on the Silk Roads between Iran and the Ottoman Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Luca Ferrero<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Mellon Term Professorship
\nThe Memory of the Will: Agency, Time, and Value<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Elyse Ambrose<\/strong><\/a>
\nReligious Studies
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nA Living Archive: Embodying a Blackqueer Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Maria Firmino-Castillo<\/strong><\/a>
\nDance
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nPlacing the Three Stones: Insurgent Acts of Ixil Worldmaking<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Bronwyn Leebaw<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Political Science
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nEast of the 15: Environmental War Crimes, Frontline Pedagogies, and Transformative Landscapes of<\/em>
\nMemory<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Chikako Takeshita<\/strong><\/a>
\nGender and Sexuality Studies
\nMellon Quarterly Fellowship
\nRadioactive Speak: The Science and Politics of Radiation Exposure in Fukushima<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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2022-23<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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Jonathan Eacott<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Second Book Fellowship
\nElephantasmagoria: Elephants in British and American Imperialism<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Dana Simmons<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nHunger Stories from the Science Archive<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Kim Dionne<\/strong><\/a>
\nPolitical Science
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nPandemic Politics in Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Jason Weems<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory of Art
\nMellon Second Book Fellowship
\nInventing the Americas: Art, Archaeology, and the Modern Making of a Pre-Columbian Past<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Allison Hedge-Coke<\/strong><\/a>
\nCreative Writing
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nDust Upon Us<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Sage Whitson<\/strong><\/a>
\nDance
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nOngoing Research Projects<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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2021-22<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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Philipp Lehmann<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nData Migration: Global Climates Between Africa and Europe<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Deborah Wong<\/strong><\/a>
\nMusic
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nRogue Methodologies: Ethnomusicology, Woman, Other<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Wesley Leonard<\/strong><\/a>
\nEthnic Studies
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nToward a Native American Linguistics<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Jennifer Syvertsen<\/strong><\/a>
\nAnthropology
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nImaginative counter-geographies of the opioid crisis in the Inland Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Susan Zieger<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnglish
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nLogistical Life<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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2020-21<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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Crystal Baik<\/strong><\/a>
\nGender and Sexuality Studies
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nReparative Horizons: On Korean American Activisms<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Eric Schwitzgebel<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhilosophy
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nPhilosophy Meets Science Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Sherryl Vint<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnglish
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nThe Ethics of Debt: Speculation, Imaginaries, Futures<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Thomas Cogswell<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nThe Murder of the Duke of Buckingham and the Transformation of English Political Culture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Padma Rangarajan<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnglish
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nThug Life: The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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2019-20<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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David Biggs<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nPacific Gyres and the Base Archipelago: An Environmental History of Militarized Circulations in the Pacific, 1945-Present<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Matthew King<\/strong><\/a>
\nReligious Studies
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nFaxian and the Invention of Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Stephen Sohn<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnglish
\nMellon Term Professorship
\nWar Everlasting: The Militarized Technogeometries of Korean American Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Marissa Brookes<\/strong><\/a>
\nPolitical Science
\nMellon Second Project Fellowship
\nBringing Labor Back In: How Histories of Conflict Tame Corporate Power Over Time<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

Jade Sasser<\/strong><\/a>
\nGender & Sexuality Studies
\nMellon Dean\u2019s Professorship
\nMany Cooks in the Kitchen: Stoves, Fuels, and Women\u2019s Agency in the Global South<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Learn more about current and past fellows’ research on our Fellows page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>